I am trying to introduce an additional hard drive into an older PC and
run a dual boot system, running XP pro on two different hard drives.

The PC currently has XP pro installed on the C drive (primary master
IDE). All is working fine and I have just added another drive on the
secondary master. This channel has a CD/DVD player as slave. Both hard
drive and slave are configured correctly with the switches.

After installing the 2nd drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as
NFTS, primary partition, using the WIn XP CD and the BIOS detects this
drive. Also, booting into Windows on the C: drive I can see the new
drive and everything seems to be functioning normally. I checked this in
disk management, where I also set the partition on the new drive as
active as I thought this might be why Win set up couldn't see the drive.

Anyhow, booting to my XP setup CD I get as far as the screen where it
displays what hard drives are available to install Windows onto, and it
only displays the C: drive.

Given that the new drive is detected by both BIOS and from within
Windows on the C: drive, I can't see what I've missed. Any ideas?

Sam, if the new drive is SATA it may need drivers installed using F6 at
the beginning of the Install. The drivers could be first copied to a floppy
disk. Then inserted when Install asks for disk.
"Sam" <me@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>I am trying to introduce an additional hard drive into an older PC and
> run a dual boot system, running XP pro on two different hard drives.
>
> The PC currently has XP pro installed on the C drive (primary master
> IDE). All is working fine and I have just added another drive on the
> secondary master. This channel has a CD/DVD player as slave. Both hard
> drive and slave are configured correctly with the switches.
>
> After installing the 2nd drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as
> NFTS, primary partition, using the WIn XP CD and the BIOS detects this
> drive. Also, booting into Windows on the C: drive I can see the new
> drive and everything seems to be functioning normally. I checked this in
> disk management, where I also set the partition on the new drive as
> active as I thought this might be why Win set up couldn't see the drive.
>
> Anyhow, booting to my XP setup CD I get as far as the screen where it
> displays what hard drives are available to install Windows onto, and it
> only displays the C: drive.
>
> Given that the new drive is detected by both BIOS and from within
> Windows on the C: drive, I can't see what I've missed. Any ideas?

"Sam" <me@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.2570fe534f6d87c5989684@news.virginmedia.c om...
>I am trying to introduce an additional hard drive into an older PC and
> run a dual boot system, running XP pro on two different hard drives.
>
> The PC currently has XP pro installed on the C drive (primary master
> IDE). All is working fine and I have just added another drive on the
> secondary master. This channel has a CD/DVD player as slave. Both hard
> drive and slave are configured correctly with the switches.
>
> After installing the 2nd drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as
> NFTS, primary partition, using the WIn XP CD and the BIOS detects this
> drive. Also, booting into Windows on the C: drive I can see the new
> drive and everything seems to be functioning normally. I checked this in
> disk management, where I also set the partition on the new drive as
> active as I thought this might be why Win set up couldn't see the drive.
>
> Anyhow, booting to my XP setup CD I get as far as the screen where it
> displays what hard drives are available to install Windows onto, and it
> only displays the C: drive.
>
> Given that the new drive is detected by both BIOS and from within
> Windows on the C: drive, I can't see what I've missed. Any ideas?

Unplug the 1st drive then install XP to the 2nd drive.

In article <OycgWYiaKHA.5156@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, rbarry@socal.rr.com
says...
> Sam, if the new drive is SATA it may need drivers installed using F6 at
> the beginning of the Install.

No. its not SATA.

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:29:13 -0000, Sam <me@nospam.com> wrote:

>I am trying to introduce an additional hard drive into an older PC and
>run a dual boot system, running XP pro on two different hard drives.
>
>The PC currently has XP pro installed on the C drive (primary master
>IDE). All is working fine and I have just added another drive on the
>secondary master. This channel has a CD/DVD player as slave. Both hard
>drive and slave are configured correctly with the switches.
>
>After installing the 2nd drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as
>NFTS, primary partition, using the WIn XP CD and the BIOS detects this
>drive. Also, booting into Windows on the C: drive I can see the new
>drive and everything seems to be functioning normally. I checked this in
>disk management, where I also set the partition on the new drive as
>active as I thought this might be why Win set up couldn't see the drive.
>
>Anyhow, booting to my XP setup CD I get as far as the screen where it
>displays what hard drives are available to install Windows onto, and it
>only displays the C: drive.

You just said two paragraphs above that "After installing the 2nd
drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as NFTS, primary
partition, using the WIn XP CD." So you were able to use the Win XP
CD to partition and format the second drive once, and now you can't?

>
>Given that the new drive is detected by both BIOS and from within
>Windows on the C: drive, I can't see what I've missed. Any ideas?

In article <va1fg55ctt12d11oord6v5vs5o2d09difo@4ax.com>, 1@2.3 says...

>
> You just said two paragraphs above that "After installing the 2nd
> drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as NFTS, primary
> partition, using the WIn XP CD." So you were able to use the Win XP
> CD to partition and format the second drive once, and now you can't?

Yes, by booting to the XP CD and entering recovery console I could
format the new drive, but then going into XP installation the disk was
not displayed, the only drive listed was my present one.

However, as I said earier, if I boot to the orginal operating system on
my old hard drive, I can see the new drive from Windows.

Sam,

Download the SATA drivers, put on a floppy, press F6 to load them during
setup...

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SPAMCOP User



"Sam" <me@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.2570fe534f6d87c5989684@news.virginmedia.c om...
>I am trying to introduce an additional hard drive into an older PC and
> run a dual boot system, running XP pro on two different hard drives.
>
> The PC currently has XP pro installed on the C drive (primary master
> IDE). All is working fine and I have just added another drive on the
> secondary master. This channel has a CD/DVD player as slave. Both hard
> drive and slave are configured correctly with the switches.
>
> After installing the 2nd drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as
> NFTS, primary partition, using the WIn XP CD and the BIOS detects this
> drive. Also, booting into Windows on the C: drive I can see the new
> drive and everything seems to be functioning normally. I checked this in
> disk management, where I also set the partition on the new drive as
> active as I thought this might be why Win set up couldn't see the drive.
>
> Anyhow, booting to my XP setup CD I get as far as the screen where it
> displays what hard drives are available to install Windows onto, and it
> only displays the C: drive.
>
> Given that the new drive is detected by both BIOS and from within
> Windows on the C: drive, I can't see what I've missed. Any ideas?

In article <egs96LsaKHA.808@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>,
spamcop_user@no_mail.haha says...
> Sam,
>
> Download the SATA drivers, put on a floppy, press F6 to load them during
> setup...
>
>
See my earlier comment (ie the fact hat its not a SATA drive)

Sam, have you tried reversing the CD/DVD player from the slave position
to primary position? Try using a different Ribbon Cable

"Sam" <me@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.2570fe534f6d87c5989684@news.virginmedia.c om...
>I am trying to introduce an additional hard drive into an older PC and
> run a dual boot system, running XP pro on two different hard drives.
>
> The PC currently has XP pro installed on the C drive (primary master
> IDE). All is working fine and I have just added another drive on the
> secondary master. This channel has a CD/DVD player as slave. Both hard
> drive and slave are configured correctly with the switches.
>
> After installing the 2nd drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as
> NFTS, primary partition, using the WIn XP CD and the BIOS detects this
> drive. Also, booting into Windows on the C: drive I can see the new
> drive and everything seems to be functioning normally. I checked this in
> disk management, where I also set the partition on the new drive as
> active as I thought this might be why Win set up couldn't see the drive.
>
> Anyhow, booting to my XP setup CD I get as far as the screen where it
> displays what hard drives are available to install Windows onto, and it
> only displays the C: drive.
>
> Given that the new drive is detected by both BIOS and from within
> Windows on the C: drive, I can't see what I've missed. Any ideas?

what size is the new harddrive remember xp may see it but it may be to
large for bios to see
Sam wrote:
> I am trying to introduce an additional hard drive into an older PC and
> run a dual boot system, running XP pro on two different hard drives.
>
> The PC currently has XP pro installed on the C drive (primary master
> IDE). All is working fine and I have just added another drive on the
> secondary master. This channel has a CD/DVD player as slave. Both hard
> drive and slave are configured correctly with the switches.
>
> After installing the 2nd drive, I set up one partition, formatted it as
> NFTS, primary partition, using the WIn XP CD and the BIOS detects this
> drive. Also, booting into Windows on the C: drive I can see the new
> drive and everything seems to be functioning normally. I checked this in
> disk management, where I also set the partition on the new drive as
> active as I thought this might be why Win set up couldn't see the drive.
>
> Anyhow, booting to my XP setup CD I get as far as the screen where it
> displays what hard drives are available to install Windows onto, and it
> only displays the C: drive.
>
> Given that the new drive is detected by both BIOS and from within
> Windows on the C: drive, I can't see what I've missed. Any ideas?